UOP scoops PX contract

AUTHOR(S)

Jagger, Anna

PUB. DATE

January 2007

SOURCE

ICIS Chemical Business;1/29/2007, Vol. 2 Issue 51, p23

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the contract awarded by Petrochina to UOP to supply technology, basic engineering and equipment for its aromatics project in Urumqi, northwest China. UOP said its Parex process would be used for the adsorption unit. The company will also supply a unit to convert naphtha to aromatics and hydrogen.

ACCESSION #

23977815

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